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1570-1579

  • از حسد جوشان و کف می‏ریختند ** در نهانی مکر می‏انگیختند 1570
  • They were boiling and foaming with envy, and were starting plots m secret,

  • تا غلام خاص را گردن زنند ** بیخ او را از زمانه بر کنند
  • That they might behead the favourite slave and tear up his root from the world;

  • چون شود فانی چو جانش شاه بود ** بیخ او در عصمت الله بود
  • (But) how should he perish, since the King was his soul, and his root was under the protection of God?

  • شاه از آن اسرار واقف آمده ** همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زده‏
  • The King had become aware of those secret thoughts, (but) like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí he kept silence.

  • در تماشای دل بد گوهران ** می‏زدی خنبک بر آن کوزه‏گران‏
  • In (viewing) the spectacle of the hearts of (those) evil-natured ones he was clapping his hands (derisively) at those potters (schemers).

  • مکر می‏سازند قومی حیله‏مند ** تا که شه را در فقاعی در کنند 1575
  • Some cunning people devise stratagems to get the King into a beer-jug;

  • پادشاهی بس عظیمی بی‏کران ** در فقاعی کی بگنجد ای خران‏
  • (But) a King (so) exceedingly grand and illimitable—how should He be contained in a beer jug, O asses?

  • از برای شاه دامی دوختند ** آخر این تدبیر از او آموختند
  • They knitted a net for the King; (yet) after all, they (had) learnt this contrivance from Him.

  • نحس شاگردی که با استاد خویش ** همسری آغازد و آید به پیش‏
  • Ill-starred is the pupil that begins rivalry with his master and comes forward (to contend with him).

  • با کدام استاد استاد جهان ** پیش او یکسان و هویدا و نهان‏
  • With what master? The master of the world, to whom the manifest and the occult are alike;